A STRANGE EXCAVATION
TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY
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FROM THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
APRIL 19, 1902
STRANGE EXCAVATION
CITIZENS OF FINCH NEIGHBORHOOD DON'T UNDERSTAND IT.
JOHN PILLOWS OF POLAND TOWNSHIP IS AMONG THE NUMEROUS VISTORS TO TOWN TODAY AND RELATED
TO A SOLIPHONE REPORTER A CIRCUMSTANCE THAT HAS CAUSED CONSIDERABLE SPECULATION IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD .
THE OLD HOME PLACE OF HIS FATHER , CLEBURNE PILLOWS , WAS THE SCENE OF
THE STRANGE INCIDENT . SINCE THE FIRST OF JANUARY NO ONE HAS LIVED ON
THE PLACE. THE DISCOVERY WAS MADE RECENTLY
THAT SOME ONE HAD EXCAVATED SOMETHING THAT WAS BURRIED ON THE
PLACE NEAR THE BARN. THE GROUND WHERE THE
EXCAVATION WAS MADE RESEMBLED A NEW GRAVE AND AN
INVESTIGATION SHOWED THAT A VESSEL ABOUT
THE SIZE OF A TEN GALLON POT HAD BEEN DUG UP.
THE EARTH AROUND THE PLACE WHERE THE POT WAS CONCEALED SHOWED
THAT SOME KIND OF VESSEL HAD BEEN HID AWAY FOR
YEARS AT A DEPTH OF ABOUT FIVE FEET UNDER THE GROUND .
A STAKE HAD BEEN SET INDICATING WHERE THE TREASURE WAS BURRIED.
THERE IS MUCH SPECULATION IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNING THE STRANGE EXCAVATION , SOME BEING
OF THE OPINIEN THAT IT WAS AN OLD INDIAN TREASURE THAT HAD BEEN CONCEALED FOR
MANY YEARS , OR IT MAY HAVE BEEN TREASURES THAT WERE BURRIED THERE DURING THE WAR ,
BUT WHATSOEVER IT WAS , THE OPINION IS PRETTY GENERAL THAT SOMETHING OF VALUE WAS UNEARTHED AND
SPIRITED AWAY.